The Macroeconomic Role of Peasant Substance-economies

Abstract

In the Third World the urban unemployment is a reflexion of the rural one — say their experts. We try to interprete the present East-Central-European unemployment according of this pattern, and made our investigations in a little region of Transylvania on family-farms. There we found:
- families are working in a very broad dividing of labour with relatives and neighbours;
- they produce dominantly for own needs, and sell only few surpluses;
- their taking urban/industrial employments plays only a supplementary role in supporting the family and its farming.